SOLAR ENERTECH
CORP.
2008 RESTRICTED STOCK
PLAN
1.
Establishment, Purpose
and Term of Plan .
1.1
Establishment . The Solar Enertech Corp. 2008 Restricted
Stock Plan (the “ Plan ”) is
established effective as of August 19, 2008 (the “
Effective Date
”).
1.2
Purpose
. The purpose of the Plan is to
advance the interests of the Participating Company Group and its
stockholders by providing an incentive to attract, retain and
reward persons performing services for the Participating Company
Group and by motivating such persons to contribute to the growth
and profitability of the Participating Company Group.
1.3
Term of Plan
. The Plan shall continue in effect
until its termination by the Committee; provided, however, that all
Restricted Stock Awards must be granted, if at all, within
ten (10) years from the Plan’s Effective
Date.
2.
Definitions and
Construction .
2.1
Definitions
. Whenever used herein, the
following terms shall have their respective meanings set forth
below:
(a) “ Affiliate ” means
(i) an entity, other than a Parent Corporation, that directly,
or indirectly through one or more intermediary entities, controls
the Company or (ii) an entity, other than a Subsidiary
Corporation, that is controlled by the Company directly or
indirectly through one or more intermediary entities. For this
purpose, the term “ control ”
(including the term “ controlled by ”)
means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or
cause the direction of the management and policies of the relevant
entity, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by
contract or otherwise; or shall have such other meaning assigned
such term for the purposes of registration on Form S-8 under
the Securities Act.
(b) “ Award Agreement ”
means a written or electronic agreement between the Company and a
Participant setting forth the terms, conditions and restrictions of
the Restricted Stock Award granted to the Participant.
(c) “ Board ” means the
Board of Directors of the Company.
(d) “ Cause ” means,
unless such term or an equivalent term is otherwise defined with
respect to an Award by the Participant’s Award Agreement or
by a written contract of employment or service, any of the
following: (i) the Participant’s theft, dishonesty,
willful misconduct, breach of fiduciary duty for personal profit,
or falsification of any Participating Company documents or records,
in each case which has a material detrimental effect on a
Participating Company’s reputation or business; (ii) the
Participant’s unauthorized use, misappropriation, destruction
or diversion of any tangible or intangible asset or corporate
opportunity of a Participating Company (including, without
limitation, the Participant’s improper use or disclosure of a
Participating Company’s confidential or proprietary
information) in each case which has a material detrimental effect
on a Participating Company’s reputation or business; or
(iii) the Participant’s conviction (including any plea
of guilty or nolo contendere ) of any criminal act
involving fraud, dishonesty, misappropriation or moral turpitude,
or which impairs the Participant’s ability to perform his or
her duties with a Participating Company.
(e) “ Change in Control
” means, unless such term or an equivalent term is otherwise
defined with respect to an Award by the Participant’s Award
Agreement or written contract of employment or service, the
occurrence of any of the following:
(i) any “person” (as such term is used
in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) becomes the
“beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3
promulgated under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of
securities of the Company representing more than fifty percent
(50%) of the total combined voting power of the Company’s
then-outstanding securities entitled to vote generally in the
election of Directors; provided, however, that the following
acquisitions shall not constitute a Change in Control: (1) an
acquisition by any such person who on the Effective Date is the
beneficial owner of more than fifty percent (50%) of such voting
power, (2) any acquisition directly from the Company,
including, without limitation, a public offering of securities,
(3) any acquisition by the Company, (4) any acquisition
by a trustee or other fiduciary under an employee benefit plan of a
Participating Company or (5) any acquisition by an entity
owned directly or indirectly by the stockholders of the Company in
substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the voting
securities of the Company; or
(ii) an Ownership Change Event or series of related
Ownership Change Events (collectively, a “
Transaction ”) in which the stockholders of
the Company immediately before the Transaction do not retain
immediately after the Transaction direct or indirect beneficial
ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the total combined
voting power of the outstanding securities entitled to vote
generally in the election of Directors or, in the case of an
Ownership Change Event described in Section 2.1(t)(iii), the
entity to which the assets of the Company were transferred (the
“ Transferee ”), as the case may be;
or
(iii) the liquidation or dissolution of the
Company.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, a Change in Control shall be deemed not to include a
transaction described in subsections (i) or (ii) of this
Section 2.1(e) in which a majority of the members of the board
of directors of the continuing, surviving or successor entity, or
parent thereof, immediately after such transaction is comprised of
Incumbent Directors.
For purposes of
this Section 2.1(e), indirect beneficial ownership shall include,
without limitation, an interest resulting from ownership of the
voting securities of one or more corporations or other business
entities which own the Company or the Transferee, as the case may
be, either directly or through one or more subsidiary corporations
or other business entities. The Committee shall have the right to
determine whether multiple sales or exchanges of the voting
securities of the Company or multiple Ownership Change Events are
related, and its determination shall be final, binding and
conclusive.
(f) “ Code ” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any applicable
regulations promulgated thereunder.
(g) “ Committee ” means
the Compensation Committee and such other committee or subcommittee
of the Board, if any, duly appointed to administer the Plan and
having such powers in each instance as shall be specified by the
Board. If, at any time, there is no committee of the Board then
authorized or properly constituted to administer the Plan, the
Board shall exercise all of the powers of the Committee granted
herein, and, in any event, the Board may in its discretion exercise
any or all of such powers.
(h) “ Company ” means
Solar Enertech Corp., a Nevada corporation, or any successor
corporation thereto.
(i) “ Consultant ”
means a person engaged to provide consulting or advisory services
(other than as an Employee or a Director) to a Participating
Company.
(j) “ Director ” means
a member of the Board.
(k) “ Disability ”
means the inability of the Participant, in the opinion of a
qualified physician acceptable to the Company, to perform the major
duties of the Participant’s position with the Participating
Company Group because of the sickness or injury of the
Participant.
(l) “ Dividend Equivalent
Right ” means the right of a Participant, granted at
the discretion of the Committee or as otherwise provided by the
Plan, to receive a credit for the account of such Participant in an
amount equal to the cash dividends paid on one share of Stock for
each share of Stock represented by an Award held by such
Participant.
(m) “ Employee ” means
any person treated as an employee (including an Officer or a
Director who is also treated as an employee) in the records of a
Participating Company; provided, however, that neither service as a
member of the Board nor payment of a director’s fee shall be
sufficient to constitute employment for purposes of the Plan. The
Company shall determine in good faith and in the exercise of its
discretion whether an individual has become or has ceased to be an
Employee and the effective date of such individual’s
employment or termination of employment, as the case may be. For
purposes of an individual’s rights, if any, under the terms
of the Plan as of the time of the Company’s determination of
whether or not the individual is an Employee, all such
determinations by the Company shall be final, binding and
conclusive as to such rights, if any, notwithstanding that the
Company or any court of law or governmental agency subsequently
makes a contrary determination as to such individual’s status
as an Employee.
(n) “ Exchange
Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended.
(o) “ Fair
Market Value ” means,
as of any date, the value of a share of Stock or other property as
determined by the Committee, in its discretion, or by the Company,
in its discretion, if such determination is expressly allocated to
the Company herein, subject to the following:
(i) If, on such date, the Stock is listed on a
national or regional securities exchange or market system, or is
quoted on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board
(“OTCBB”), the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock
shall be the closing price of a share of Stock (or the mean of the
closing bid and asked prices of a share of Stock if the Stock is so
quoted instead) as quoted on such national, regional securities
exchange, market system or OTCBB constituting the primary market
for the Stock, as reported in The Wall Street Journal, the
OTCBB or such other source as the Company deems reliable. If the
relevant date does not fall on a day on which the Stock has traded
over the counter or on such securities exchange or market system,
the date on which the Fair Market Value shall be established shall
be the last day on which the Stock was so traded prior to the
relevant date, or such other appropriate day as shall be determined
by the Committee, in its discretion.
(ii) If, on such date, the Stock is not listed on a
national or regional securities exchange, market system or OTCBB,
the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock shall be as determined by
the Committee in good faith without regard to any restriction other
than a restriction which, by its terms, will never lapse, and
subject to the applicable requirements, if any, of applicable
law.
(p) “ Incumbent Director
” means a director who either (i) is a member of the
Board as of the Effective Date or (ii) is elected, or
nominated for election, to the Board with the affirmative votes of
at least a majority of the Incumbent Directors at the time of such
election or nomination, but who was not elected or nominated in
connection with an actual or threatened proxy contest relating to
the election of directors of the Company.
(q) “ Insider ” means
an Officer, a Director of the Company or other person whose
transactions in Stock are subject to Section 16 of the
Exchange Act.
(r) “ Insider Trading Policy
” means the written policy of the Company pertaining to the
purchase, sale, transfer or other disposition of the
Company’s equity securities by Directors, Officers, Employees
or other service providers who may possess material, nonpublic
information regarding the Company or its securities.
(s) “ Officer ” means
any person designated by the Board as an officer of the
Company.
(t) “ Ownership Change Event
” means the occurrence of any of the following with respect
to the Company: (i) the direct or indirect sale or exchange in
a single or series of related transactions by the stockholders of
the Company of more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting stock of
the Company; (ii) a merger or consolidation in which the
Company is a party; or (iii) the sale, exchange, or transfer
of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company (other
than a sale, exchange or transfer to one or more subsidiaries of
the Company).
(u) “ Parent
Corporation ” means any present or future
“parent corporation” of the
Company, as defined in Section 424(e) of the Code.
(v) “ Participant ”
means any eligible person who has been granted one or more
Restricted Stock Awards.
(w) “ Participating Company
” means the Company or any Parent Corporation, Subsidiary
Corporation or Affiliate.
(x) “ Participating
Company Group ” means,
at any point in time, all entities collectively which are then
Participating Companies.
(y) “ Restricted Stock Award
” means an award of Restricted Stock pursuant to Section
6.
(z) “ Rule
16b-3 ” means Rule 16b-3 under the
Exchange Act, as amended from time to time, or any successor rule
or regulation.
(aa) “ Securities
Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
(bb) “ Service ” means a
Participant’s employment or service with the Participating
Company Group, whether in the capacity of an Employee, a Director
or a Consultant. A Participant’s Service shall not be deemed
to have terminated merely because of a change in the capacity in
which the Participant renders Service to the Participating Company
Group or a change in the Participating Company for which the
Participant renders such Service, provided that there is no
interruption or termination of the Participant’s Service.
Furthermore, a Participant’s Service shall not be deemed to
have terminated if the Participant takes any military leave, sick
leave, or other bona fide leave of absence approved by the Company.
However, if any such leave taken by a Participant exceeds ninety
(90) days, then on the ninety-first (91st) day following the
commencement of such leave the Participant’s Service shall be
deemed to have terminated, unless the Participant’s right to
return to Service is guaranteed by statute or contract.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless otherwise designated by the
Company or required by law, a leave of absence shall not be treated
as Service for purposes of determining vesting under the
Participant’s Award Agreement. A Participant’s Service
shall be deemed to have terminated either upon an actual
termination of Service or upon the corporation for which the
Participant performs Service ceasing to be a Participating Company.
Subject to the foregoing, the Company, in its discretion, shall
determine whether the Participant’s Service has terminated
and the effective date of and reason for such
termination.
(cc) “ Stock ” means the
common stock of the Company, as adjusted from time to time in
accordance with Section 4.3.
(dd) “ Subsidiary
Corporation ” means any present or future
“subsidiary corporation” of the Company, as defined in
Section 424(f) of the Code.
(ee) “ Vesting Conditions
” mean those conditions established in accordance with the
Plan prior to the satisfaction of which shares subject to a
Restricted Stock Award remain subject to forfeiture or a repurchase
option in favor of the Company exercisable for the
Participant’s monetary purchase price, if any, for such
shares upon the Participant’s termination of
Service.
2.2
Construction
. Captions and titles contained
herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the meaning or
interpretation of any provision of the Plan. Except when otherwise
indicated by the context, the singular shall include the plural and
the plural shall include the singular. Use of the term
“or” is not intended to be exclusive, unless the
context clearly requires otherwise.
3.
Administration .
3.1
Administration by the
Committee . The Plan
shall be administered by the Committee. All questions of
interpretation of the Plan, of any Award Agreement or of any other
form of agreement or other document employed by the Company in the
administration of the Plan or of any Award shall be determined by
the Committee, and such determinations shall be final, binding and
conclusive upon all persons having an interest in the Plan or such
Award, unless fraudulent or made in bad faith. Any and all actions,
decisions and determinations taken or made by the Committee in the
exercise of its discretion pursuant to the Plan or Award Agreement
or other agreement thereunder (other than determining questions of
interpretation pursuant to the preceding sentence) shall be final,
binding and conclusive upon all persons having an interest
therein.
3.2
Authority of
Officers . Any
Officer shall have the authority to act on behalf of the Company
with respect to any matter, right, obligation, determination or
election which is the responsibility of or which is allocated to
the Company herein, provided the Officer has apparent authority
with respect to such matter, right, obligation, determination or
election.
3.3
Administration with Respect
to Insiders . With
respect to participation by Insiders in the Plan, at any time that
any class of equity security of the Company is registered pursuant
to Section 12 of the Exchange Act, the Plan shall be
administered in compliance with the requirements, if any, of
Rule 16b-3.
3.4
Powers of the
Committee . In
addition to any other powers set forth in the Plan and subject to
the provisions of the Plan, the Committee shall have the full and
final power and authority, in its discretion:
(a) to determine the persons to whom, and the time
or times at which, Restricted Stock Awards shall be granted and the
number of shares of Stock to be subject to each Restricted Stock
Award;
(b) to determine the terms, conditions and
restrictions applicable to each Restricted Stock Award (which need
not be identical) and any shares acquired pursuant thereto,
including, without limitation, (i) the method of payment (if
any) for shares purchased pursuant to any Restricted Stock Award,
(ii)&